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cypress US English

an evergreen coniferous tree with small, rounded, woody cones and flattened shoots bearing small, scalelike leaves

Cypress US English

a city in south central California, southeast of Los Angeles; population 47,123 (est. 2008)

bald cypress US English

a deciduous North American conifer with exposed buttress roots and ball-shaped cones, typically growing in swamps and on water margins

cypress knees US English

the cone-shaped exposed growths on the buttress roots of a bald cypress

false cypress US English

a conifer of a genus that includes Lawson cypress (see Port Orford cedar)

swamp cypress US English

chiefly British term for bald cypress.

Lawson cypress US English

another term for Port Orford cedar.

Leyland cypress US English

a fast-growing hybrid conifer that is narrowly conical with a dense growth of shoots bearing scalelike leaves, widely grown as a screening plant or for shelter

Nootka cypress US English

a conical cypress whose foliage has a turpentine smell when crushed. Native to western North America and typically growing at high altitudes, it is one of the parent species of the Leyland cypress

summer cypress US English

another term for kochia.

Lawson's cypress US English

a slender North American conifer with dense foliage and lower branches arising at ground level. It is widely grown for timber and as an ornamental with many cultivars

Monterey cypress US English

a cypress tree with a large spreading crown of horizontal branches and leaves that smell of lemon when crushed, native to a small area of California and widely planted in temperate climates worldwide

hinoki cypress in hinoki US English

a tall slow-growing tree native to Japan that has bright green leaves and yields a valuable timber

bald cypress in cypress US English

used in names of coniferous trees of other families that resemble the cypress, e.g., bald cypress

Italian cypress in cypress US English

an evergreen coniferous tree with small, rounded, woody cones and flattened shoots bearing small, scalelike leaves

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